The Mississippi River is the largest in the nation and is of great importance for commerce, recreation and wildlife. It creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue, but how much do ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Flood control work in the Mississippi River and its tributaries has likely made floods worse in Mississippi and Louisiana, researchers say. Using 500 years of data from tree rings and ...

The Mississippi River defines the landscape of much of the United States of America, stretching from its headwaters in northern Minnesota to the wide deltas of Southern Louisiana, where it empties ...

Workers from the Wisconsin DNR, Minnesota DNR, US Fish and Wildlife Service and the US Geological Survey remove netted fish part in an intensive invasive carp removal effort Thursday, April 8, 2021 on ...